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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Fox News, Tiffany Haddish and Why Not All Free Speech Is Equal — or Healthy
6:30 AM PDT 3/29/2019 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar From NFL players kneeling in protest to outrage over Fox News' Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson, the "freedom of speech" argument has been deployed by many agendas in the Trump...
Inside Clive Davis”Aretha!’ Screening With Joni Mitchell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
by Chris Gardner The music mogul booked the Tower Bar for the event, which featured performances and stories of the late singer's life. Clive Davis invited 75 friends — including Berry Gordy, Diane Warren, NBA legend...
The Hollywood Reporter: What MTV’s ‘The Challenge’ Says About Modern Culture
6:45 AM PDT 3/12/2019 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar For two decades, the reality show has delivered an addictive blend of drama and competition, but a recent pivot to showcasing “fame desperados" mirrors America's broader overvaluation of celebrity "self-parody,"...
The Hollywood Reporter: Breaking Down Hollywood’s Addiction to the “Myth of Manliness”
6:30 AM PST 2/18/2019 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar From Kevin Hart to Liam Neeson, the past year has seen a disturbing parade of men in the industry forced to reckon with prior bad behavior, yet cultural watchdogs often...
The Hollywood Reporter: My 50-Year Friendship With Big Bird and ‘Sesame Street’
The (very tall) Hollywood Reporter contributor first met the yellow character in 1969 — "It's nice to have someone I can look straight in the eyes” — and sees the show's influence on everything from...
The Hollywood Reporter: Why the ‘Green Book’ Controversies Don’t Matter
6:00 AM PST 1/14/2019 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar As awards season scandals pile up, dwelling on its historical inaccuracies, or the race (or boneheaded past actions) of its writer and director, misses the deeper value of an Oscar-worthy...
The Hollywood Reporter: Blaxploitation Is Going Highbrow With an Anti-Trump Twist
6:30 AM PST 12/14/2018 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Classic '70s films like 'Shaft' and 'Super Fly' featured swaggeringly badass men and women fighting an oppressive system, so with a racist in the White House, it's no surprise that...
The Hollywood Reporter: Midterm Election Lessons and How Trump Killed the Magic of the Political Movie
Historic gains aside, the Nov. 6 results show that the meaning behind classic films of yesteryear, such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' 'All the President's Men' and even 'Lincoln,' don't have a place in...
